Saturday, February 21, 2015

BadUSB Vulnerabilities Live in ICS Gear Too

From ThreatPost:

BadUSB Vulnerabilities Live in ICS Gear Too

CANCUN – BadUSB was the hot hack of the summer of 2014. Noted researcher Karsten Nohl delivered a talk at Black Hat during which he explained how USB controller chips in peripheral devices that connect over USB can be reprogrammed. The result is a completely compromised device hosting undetectable code that could be used for a number of malicious purposes, including remote code execution or traffic redirection.

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